Sometimes I accidentally open a png or jpg with Vim, and it shows me a face-melting representation of the binary data. If you do this enough it gets annoying, so instead I’ve been using Ashish Anand’s image.vim to render ASCII previews of images.

Rust, Mozilla Research’s fledgling language, is an interesting choice for developing a text editor. It’s designed to be memory safe, with a Haskell-inspired type system. I’d argue that text editors really need to be reliable and safe, so I immediately…

If you’re like me and you find writing in Vim more pleasant than GUI tools, then you’re probably a fan of Pandoc. I’ve got a little Pandoc/Makefile/shell script setup that I’ve been using to write (sadly unfinished) books, and it works really well with Vim. It basically lets me write in Markdown and…

Dhruva Sagar sent me two plugins that he’s written: VIM ProSession and VIM Do Too.

Vim ProSession (or vim-prosession) is an extension to Tim Pope’s vim-obsession. The idea is to make it easier to manage multiple Vim sessions when…

Chris Penner is just starting out with Vim, and he’s written an interesting article about his experiences: Vim Vs. Emacs?. I remember being in the same position, and the reason I stuck with Vim was the reason I could have stuck with Emacs: I didn’t want to waste time learning a platform-specific editor…

Command-line mode, where you enter commands with : and /, can be enhanced with gelguy's new plugin Cmd2.vim. It gives you fuzzy completion for search, which can be really useful if you've been searching for long strings in overly wordy projects. It also lets you easily get…

Benjamin Klein, who wrote The VimL Primer, recently published a blog post entitled Save time in Vim NOW with these five weird tricks. I was looking for one weird trick, so I was very happy to receive five weird tricks. Anyway, one of them is about switching windows with CTRL and…